In the state of Brandenburg are gone in the first half of this year, 31 wind turbines were newly connected to the network so that the country comes first in a comparison of the Federal States. According to the Agency for wind energy in the state of North Rhine follows in second place with 28 commissioned equipment-Westphalia. Nationwide, there were 186.

The current development, although courage, but the expansion targets not be achieved, stressed Jan Hinrich Glahr, Chairman of Berlin-Brandenburg of the Federal Association of wind energy, on Friday in a message. The red-black-green state government wool install according to the coalition agreement, by 2030, around 10 500 megawatts of wind power. This means, in the next ten years, it would have to be about 300 megawatts per year. "We are very far away," said Glahr.

The new wind turbines in Brandenburg have the information according to a capacity of almost 100 megawatts. For comparison: In the first half of last year, eleven plants took up the work with a capacity of 33 megawatts.

In the case of the permits in the first half of Brandenburg according to information from the Agency with 51 projects on a nationwide basis, 3 to Schleswig-Holstein (72) and North Rhine-Westphalia (60). In addition, from January to the end of June, between the Oder and Elbe, 25 ancient of wind were laid wheels at a standstill - as many as in any other state.